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Education
Oklahoma private schools—tuition and ACT scores
The following list of private schools in Oklahoma contains current-year reported tuition figures and publicly reported ACT averages where applicable and available.Ray Carter | March 15, 2023
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Education, Law & Principles
Senate votes to reform state scholarship program
Members of the Oklahoma Senate have voted to streamline the process for children to qualify for the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities (LNH) program and to also expand the program to homeless children.Ray Carter | March 13, 2023
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Education, Law & Principles
Effort to prevent union coercion advances
Oklahoma schools would be required to make certain, on an annual basis, that teacher employees want to continue having union dues withheld from their paychecks under legislation approved by the Oklahoma Senate.Ray Carter | March 13, 2023
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Education, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma Senate restricts pornographic materials in school libraries
Oklahoma school libraries would be required to restrict children’s access to materials based on the age-appropriateness of materials, following public outcry after numerous reports of sexually graphic and pornographic materials in many schools, under legislation approved by the Oklahoma Senate.Ray Carter | March 7, 2023
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Education
With educational rigor and reform, Oklahoma can be a national leader
Oklahoma's lieutenant governor spends a lot of time talking to existing businesses in our state and companies looking to relocate to Oklahoma. If policymakers will embrace rigor and reform (including parental choice), he believes Oklahoma can become a national leader.Lieutenant Governor Matt Pinnell | March 2, 2023
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Education
Homeless children added to Oklahoma school-choice program
Homeless children would be added to a longstanding school-choice voucher program, and the process for other students to benefit from the program would be streamlined, under legislation approved by an Oklahoma Senate committee.Ray Carter | March 1, 2023
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Education, Law & Principles
Bill to strengthen teacher rights clears committee
Legislation that would strengthen teachers’ rights when dealing with unions has won easy approval in a state Senate committee.Ray Carter | March 1, 2023
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Education
Too easy to understand? Committee targets A-F school grades
Citing concerns that the system is too easily understood by the public, members of a state House committee have voted to scrap A-F school grades that inform parents of how their local public school stacks up against other public schools.Ray Carter | February 28, 2023
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Education, Law & Principles
Effort to boost turnout at school-board elections advances
In an effort to significantly increase voter turnout and input into local schools, lawmakers have advanced two bills that would shift school-board elections to a November general-election ballot.Ray Carter | February 28, 2023
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Education, Culture & the Family
Teacher union seeks taxpayer funding of abortion
The National Education Association advises its state affiliates to demand coverage of abortion in collective-bargaining agreements.Ray Carter | February 28, 2023